Thomas Witnauer

Harper International is a global leader in complete thermal processing solutions and technical services for the production of advanced materials, including Furnaces, Kilns, Calciners, and Ovens. Harper designs systems from research scale to full production line operations, with a focus on processing materials at high temperatures from 500 to 3000°C and in non-ambient atmospheres. Our expertise is in the scale up and production of advanced materials such as carbon fiber, ceramic and metal powders, nano materials, nuclear materials, and carbon materials. Our toolbox of systems includes Slot, Rotary, Pusher Tunnel, Belt Conveyor, Vertical Conveyor, Box, Elevator, and Ultra-High Temperature (UHT) furnaces, and well as Oxidation Ovens for carbon fiber. Our process expertise is unparalleled, supported by our robust engineering focus and PhD staff, and includes calcination, graphitization, carburization, controlled oxidation, oxide reduction, purification, pyrolysis, drying, reduction, solid-solid reaction, gas-solid reaction, metalizing, debinding, waste remediation and more. Harper also offers services to support our customers from beginning to end, with our Ignite™ and Pulse™ programs. Through Ignite™, Harper offers customers our depth and breadth of experience in thermal processing to analyze, optimize and scale up their material production. This extends to access to a number of research and piloting facilities with multiple furnaces and kilns to help develop the most efficient and effective regime to meet their goal, as well as tolling services as an intermediary step during process development. With Pulse™, we are the customers'​ one-call for technical support, domestic and overseas field service, proactive preventative maintenance programs, replacement parts, and engineered solutions for a broad spectrum of your service and maintenance requirements for Harper furnaces. For a list of current career opportunities: www.careersatharper.com